iPods, Americans and others

Mortimer 2022-04-01 09:01:19

See names and posters like this. I don’t have great hopes for this film, but there are some interesting scenes and profound topics that emerge when I watch it, but they are all fleeting, and the emphasis is on American-style traditional values, the so-called Western middle class. Strange imagination and parody of Eastern philosophy.
This film is similar to an iPod commercial, pursuing a deliberately happy imagination of formalism and commercialization. He made happiness, love, understanding, harmony and healing pain as the theme of the whole film. And of course, the whole world is the world of English-speaking countries. This film has neither China (I saw someone say that because YouTube was blocked by the Chinese government, first over the wall; secondly, foreign Chinese; thirdly, Hong Kong and Taiwan) nor European countries such as France, Italy, and Germany. Correspondingly, there are a large number of countries that are closely related to American life, such as Japan, Afghanistan, Iraq, India, Thailand, North Korea, and Romania. It seems to be describing a world in which the English-speaking countries of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, etc. are his centers, and the countries that serve them are their satellite countries.
Disgusting harmony. As my government's disgusting leaders go down to the grassroots. The film is full of middle-class compassion. Covering up the ruptures and distortions in the real world with some universal values, it seems that foreign media criticized Zhang Yimou during the Beijing Olympics, and used the world to cover up China's totalitarian politics. On the one hand, Americans grow old and die in a peaceful and peaceful atmosphere. On the other hand, other civilizations show national characteristics in primitive and backward environments. Isn't this a form of racism?
American way of life. From the very beginning of the film, the American way of life has been presented and represented around the world. Breakfast starts the day. Eggs, bacon, milk, toast, coffee, everyone with a smile on their faces, this is the beginning of the American dream. The whole world is echoing and excited, so the movie tells us that although we are different in different regions and cultures, our diet is the same. Under the chain that ends with us, everyone is happily maintaining their own way of life.
What is a day in your life like? When everyone sees this movie, they can think back to whether their day was full of laughter, novelty, and children's smiles, as the movie said, or whether it was a touch of sadness. And these only appear in advertisements, those people, their family rides by the beach; they receive a bottle of Coke on a hot summer day; they finally buy their favorite car, such as a Lamborghini; they are always successful and happy , contented, and always having the life of the poor at heart. Because, this is what the advertisement is trying to tell us.
I suddenly remembered the environmental protection advertisement on the Beijing bus. Famous actors will say to you with ardent expectations and longing eyes, "One day less driving, and Beijing's blue sky." Have you ever heard of any celebrity taking public transportation? On the contrary, the people who saw this advertisement were crowded hard.

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